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When the behavior and comments of grognards became painfully negative, like the howling of cannibalistic jackals.

No, it's not, and if you think so, you've been misled. Repetition helps people remember information. In a game rulebook, getting people to recall information they've read is one of the most important goals.

No, here's what YOU don't get. There are only three numerical bonuses in the entire realm of magical items. Three only, and no stacking. The rest of them are "Walk on walls for one encounter per day" or "Breathe water for one encounter per day" or "The Gauntlets of Ogre Strength give you a...

Oh, good. Literary snobbery. I love that ever so much more than grognardian edition-snobbery. Sheesh. And 'cool'? What is people's problem with that word? I really don't get it. Is it the inherent optimism in the word? You don't like that the designers are excited about their game...

I'm not a huge fan of adventures dealing with planeshifting to a god's realm and taking on unstoppable evil and stuff like that. But I really love the idea of the Feywild and the Shadowfell. I'm going to be using them all the time.

Nearly everything has been said in this monster of a thread, but I just wanted to say I absolutely love having teleport as a movement type. That is amazingly awesome. EDIT: I just had a thought. The Pit Fiend Frenzy ability is likely an example of how an Elite monster keeps up with 5 PCs -...

Well, considering that they explicitly laid out WotC's Definition of CTE as your first option, it would be fully and completely foolish to expect that WotC's Definition of CTE would be anything other than your first option. I mean, come on.

I completely agree with this. +X weapons are D&D, both to roleplayers and the wider world. Everyone knows what a +1 longsword is.

This. Also, what Mouseferatu said.

This, this right here, is why I hate Planescape: the arrogant condescending attitude of Planescape players towards everyone else around them at all times. And count me as terribly disappointed with this news. I thought we were dumping the nonsense of the Great Wheel. I don't like defacing...

Then you were obviously reading different articles than the rest of us. Seriously, if you thought that +X weapons and +X armor were going away, you were fooling yourself. As for the article: 3 +X slots whose numbers work directly against each other (and thus can be phased out if you really...

Repeating that things are lame without any explanation over and over again isn't a discussion, it's babbling.

I just figured that page 77 was mistaken. I love that no one knows what happens to a soul after it leaves the Shadowfell, and I love Greek-style gods - insanely powerful, but with their own shortcomings and petty squabbles.

I get it now; you just want to complain and not discuss. Very well; I won't stand in the way of your uninformed complaining any longer. Have fun.

Tactical feats will probably get their components beefed up and separated into powers. I'm guessing you'll get a choice of power every level, and a choice of feat every other level, and a bunch of bonus feats from your class, too. There'll be plenty of slots and choices. But you can't have...

Yeah, I've been pretty willing to cut WotC some slack with online updates, but this is starting to get a little ridiculous. I can't see paying them to not update their website every month. I think the biggest problem with the DI so far is they're trying to write D&D books and also write Dragon...

It's completely unfair to complain that 4e feats aren't exactly the same as 3e feats, and intellectually dishonest to say they objectively suck when you're seeing them out of context of the entire system. 4e feats are weaker than 3e feats, sure, but everyone gets a boatload more class powers so...

You have no idea what 4e feats even are. You're taking your memories of 3e's "Grant Cool Ability" feats and assuming that they are going to show up as feats in 4e, when we know that the powerful, core ability-granting feats are being changed to Class Features. We should be expecting feats...

So am I. My jaw stood agape when they admitted it - it all made so much sense once I read that. I guess I never really thought that making one set of options really crappy was a conscious design choice, instead of a blind spot or unconscious moral failing.

Man, that adamantine dragon picture is sweet. Love it. Is there a picture of the iron dragon in W&M? If so, can you describe it? Is it at least a little rust-ish?